royal duke
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Eric Pierre, a pastor who teaches fifth-grade English in the Bronx, has taken up an additional title this summer: royal duke.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2022
Suspects ranged from low-life madmen to a royal duke.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2016
But on other occasions, as when he insisted against her wishes on wearing a plain naval uniform� instead of the trappings of a royal duke at the recent opening of Parliament, Philip's will prevails.
From Time Magazine Archive
There has been a grand plunging of military troopers outside, a violent arrest of fiery horses pulled up suddenly, and the prince and a royal duke and the vice-king and all their attendants have descended.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
On jewels he spent nothing, having already, he said, "a sufficient store for the wife of a royal duke."
From At Agincourt by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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